yea! Very good! stuff with emulator and with the 'bat" starting file! Superb!
good idea too.
Well...about demo...
Thanks to creators for very good emotions
demo! It was а very nice!
Freshing realization! Good! Very nice again!
deMarche! Thanks!
music by lovely star - mmcm !
Gfx and code - Superb! Thanks!

Watching the video I was first going "WTF? Where are those colors coming from - I thought the Spectrum only had those full-saturated RGB-combination colors!?!"
Now I see that it is flickering between two screens, but that the emulator disables this and creates the "perfect" inbetween-color. This is somewhat misleading. If you edit the INI-file in the emul-directory and change the NoFlic=1 setting to NoFlic=0, you'll see that it flickers quite a lot.

However, it might look much better on a 50Hz CRT, so I won't judge it either way until I can see it on real HW.

Awesome Speccy demo! And an excellent flow! Though, I would have liked to see more bitmapped effects, heh ;) (nitpicking.. the youtube clip is kinda misleading, because on a real +3 hardware the demo flickers quite a lot and therefore does not look nearly as cool as the emulator capture looks..)

Sorry guys. Thumb down for the flickering. Gigascreen is really a not standard thing. And who wants to watch demos in emulator, is not a real spectrumist. Next time, make a demo for ZX Spectrum, not for some fucking non standard russian clone. And the music is ripped from some old demo. Scandalous!

In the archive there is some idiotic PC stuff. Sorry guys. The TRD is only in Pentagon directory. No TAP version, no normal Sperctrum 128K version (yet), and those gigascreen flickers fx simply SUCK BIG TIME. Well, it could be called rather Eye Ache III. 8 colours + bright is not enough for you?

This demo runs normally on regular "demo-scene" standard which is ZX Spectrum 128.
I've checked it out.
However making a demo in 2009 with music RIPPED FROM ANOTHER DEMO is highly lame, considering so many great AY musicians still beeing active. I'm very suprised. It doesn't matter if it was with the agreement from the musician or without. The music is ripped (although it's cool itself).
It's not 1989, it's 2009, guys.

Anyway the demo is fantastic. Should be "rulez" but it's only "OK" because of ripping music in 2009.

johny! "if it was with the agreement from the musician or without." this track was used under permission of the author, more then - this is an author remix of original track. Yes it was released before but it is not a RIP - MMCM is here in the house and he knows about this becose he is a part of the team - just check last 5 second of demo

Ok it is the same but remixed - there is no secret. But "Jaundice" is zero thumbs up and this one is in the top of the month! Give deMarche a chance - it is not so easy to find good AY track for a demo within 2 weeks right now :-(

Flickering, slow 8x8 effects. I think you can do better! I knew from the first tones the music is from the CC00 invitro(i think i was even showing it on mekka symposium?)

......soooooo Factor6 always complained that he does music for nothing. C-Jeff Is also lurking somewhere and Yerzmyey is always in for a tune (And Vodka).
(get the hint)
You can pay respect to musicians in a better way than using their known musics...

At least the pace was good and the gfx dont look ripped. Piggie for saving the compo. ;-)

What Exin said. The music could have been different. Not a remix of well known demo music. About code, yes, it's probably on the very high level. Gigascreen FX - why not, but not in whole demo (WTF!). Again, next time, do a demo for ZX Spectrum. Like C64 people do demos for C64s. Nobody is curious about stuff which runs correctly only in some fucking emulator (not this case, of course, it works on firm Spectrum). But, yes, if it saved TUM compo, that's fine.

i dont like the graphics and the effects are not that impressive considering the block trick. but the demo does have lots of work put into it and was puzzled together in a very smart way. even if its damn ugly most of the time. thumbs up for pushing the speccy scene. hope your next demo aint so "mainstream" as this one though.

Music recycling due to lack of ACTIVE ay-composers. Yes, there is a THOUSAND OF THEM on the scene but when you need a track everyone dissapear. Music is remixed by MMCM (author) and used under full permisson. Sorry...

Ripping music is lame, nuff' said.
I asked several very _active_ composers and even nobody bothered to ask them.
You'd be honest enough to admit you prefer techno music (that sounds crappy on ay chip, like this one music) but to lie like this is simply pityful.

Looked at this on an emu, fucking ce,but how long does it take to load from tape on a real machine? I think I m doing something wrong because it never ends loading. Or am I just not used to tape loading? :P

Visually awesome... but the loading was very boring. I felt like I was loading for 10 minutes to watch a few seconds or so... My guess is you're loading animations? surely the speccy can't shade blobs in realtime. Plus that god-damn flickering!

It's emulator show on party with unblinking option, not real spectrum for vote.
Multicolor 4*4? - Before crying about it, look 2000/2001 year, demos from BrainWave: Tryptomine Dream
and Stellar Contour
Ok for keep zx demodesign alive and show zx power to people.

How do you get this running properly on real HW?
I have a +2A, loading the correct .TAP using a tape-adapter, and K7ZX with the non-accelerated standard, slow-loading mode.
Demo seems to load, but when it starts, the .wav file has not finished playing!
If I stop the tape once the demo starts, it runs fine until a picture that says something about bump.
If I leave it running I can barely hear the music, but just tape-loading noise, and after the bump-pic it seems to go into "loading mode" again, but nothing happens when it has finished loading.

Sdw / Marq: It's a multi-loading demo, so if you're loading from tape you need to stop and start the tape at the relevant points. The demo isn't really intended to be run from tape, though - it's presented as a continuous sequence (which is why there are no "start/stop tape" prompts) and the 5-minute wait between parts probably ruins the effect, but it works in principle... :-) For best results it should be run from disk, or something that can flash-load TAP files (such as the DivIDE).

Alright, finally got my DivIDE, so now I could watch this demo properly!
Still, I think my initial comment from way WAY back still stands - it just flickers too much, and this is on a proper setup, real hardware and CRT TV.
Some of the pictures handles this better where it seems to interlace on a per-line basis or something (maybe every 2/4 lines?), then the effect is more acceptable. The initial picture though (seen in the topleftmost screenshot) and many of the effects flicker like crazy however.